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GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

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  1. wg0 · · focus · HN ↗
    They're advertising GLM for free.

    Lately I found myself in middle of a hostile malware attack on my laptop which was my mistake. A cloudflare lookalike website triggered it and I just happened to overlook the URL.

    In panic I headed to Claude and first request was denied. Not looking beyond scope.

    Desperate - I fired opencode with DeepSeek v4 Flash (not even 4.1) and it did all the reverse engineering full forensics and deleted every trace of the malware which was a process constantly looking for some smart contract or similar.

    So no, GLM 5.3 is fine. Thank you for the free advertisement.

    1. gravypod · · focus · HN ↗
      This part of the article really stands out:

      > On Sept. 17, NIST’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) published its own assessment of GLM-5.3’s cyber capabilities. CAISI found that GLM-5.3 is “the most cyber-capable open-weight model released to date” and that it lags the US frontier by about four months on an aggregate of CAISI’s cyber benchmarks.

      To translate: "This free model, you can host yourself, is at max 4 months behind Anthropic - as confirmed by Anthropic and the US Government - and it won't reject your requests"

      Interesting play before an IPO...

      1. lelanthran · · focus · HN ↗
        > Interesting play before an IPO...

        I can't see how they can IPO in the current conditions; there's no moat, there's no stickyness, there's no damn profit! They're 4x months, AIUI, ahead of the free models.

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